By MARK HANOK
Very quickly, we went
from a dry weather pattern
to an exceptionally wet
weather pattern. During the
first 13 days of July, we got
only sixth-tenths of an inch
of rain at our weather station
in Otego. From Friday
night through early Wednesday
morning, we got four
inches of rain, bringing the
monthly total to over five
and a half inches. That’s because
of a series of heavy
showers and thunderstorms
associated with wave of low
pressure moving along a
stationary front, and abundant
tropical moisture.
We’ll get a break on Friday
as a weak cold front
slides to our south and a
light northwest flow takes
over. Skies will be mostly
sunny with lower humidity
and highs from 80 to 85 degrees.
Over the weekend, pleasant
weather will prevail
most of the time, but the
front will not be far to the
south, and the air will become
unstable due to the
strong mid-summer sun
heating the air at the surface
and colder air aloft.
Skies will be partly sunny
on Saturday, with moderate
levels of humidity and highs
from 78 to 84 degrees; there’s
the chance of a shower or
thunderstorm in the afternoon
or evening.
For the all-important
Baseball Hall of Fame Induction
Ceremonies in Cooperstown
on Sunday, skies
will be partly sunny and it
will be moderately humid,
but scattered showers and
thunderstorms could develop
at any time. Any rain will
be brief in duration, however;
highs will be 75 to 80 degrees.
Abundant tropical moisture
will be just to the south
early next week, and a humid
pattern will take over
again in our area. Although
skies will be partly sunny
most of the time on Monday
and Tuesday, there will be
scattered showers and thunderstorms
each afternoon
and evening; highs will be
from 75 to 80 degrees.
Mark Hanok is an Otego based
meteorologist. You
can visit him on the World
Wide Web at http://members.
aol.com/weathergazette.
Weather Watch
July 24, 2008
Weather Watch
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- Weather watch The Susquehanna River level will be unusually low for the General Clinton Canoe Regatta during Memorial Day weekend.
- Weather Watch It’s really uncanny how the very dry weather pattern has continued in this area despite the succession of major storms that have moved to the west and south.
- Weather Watch Now that north has become a synonym for sunshine and south has become a synonym for rain, there’s no way that this extremely dry weather pattern can change at least for the next four weeks.
- Weather Watch March was the third straight month with below normal precipitation, and it looks like April will also turn out to be drier than normal.
- Weather Watch Temperatures were near normal in March, with precipitation around an inch below normal.
- Weather Watch On Friday a major storm will move to the Ohio Valley, while high pressure builds southward from eastern Canada. Skies will be partly sunny with highs from 55 to 60 degrees.
- Weather Watch When it’s warmer to the north and cooler to the south, it’s so easy to get into an extremely dry weather pattern in Otsego County. The weather forecast in last week’s weather column was more optimistic than other local weather forecasts, but the weather was actually much better than even we predicted.
- Weather Watch The jet stream will shift southward this week and a series of low pressure systems will move well to our south.
- Weather Watch Exactly as we predicted at the beginning of the month, it was one of the driest Februaries on record in Otsego County and throughout most of central and eastern New York. Thanks to the extreme upside-down temperature pattern with much warmer weather in Montana than in Georgia, and strong winds on Monday and Tuesday, an extremely dry weather pattern will be the theme for at least the next two to three weeks.
- Weather Watch Exactly as we’ve been predicting for the past month, this is turning out to be an exceptionally dry February - one of the driest on record in central and eastern New York.
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